Built by a lawyer.
Run like it.
Adam Gurney, founder of Instabridge Funding and practicing attorney.
Instabridge was built by someone who understands the case, the client, and the pressure on the firm.
Adam Gurney is a practicing attorney — law school, courtrooms, cases that matter.
He started Instabridge after a conversation with a peer exposed how broken the funding industry really was. Companies built by finance people who saw attorneys as lead sources and plaintiffs as collateral. No white-glove service. No real understanding of the cases. Just volume.
He knew it could be better — because he'd already built a practice on the same principles: transparency, fair terms, and treating people like professionals.
Instabridge is what happens when a lawyer builds the funding company instead of just endorsing one.
Our principles.
Protect the settlement
We cap advances. Always. Overfunding is bad for plaintiffs, bad for attorneys, and bad for the long-term industry.
Treat people like professionals
Attorneys aren't leads. Plaintiffs aren't collateral. Every interaction reflects that.
Transparency without exception
Every fee, every rate, every term — disclosed in plain English before a dollar moves. No surprises, ever.
The difference an attorney at the top makes.
Most pre-settlement funding companies are run by finance professionals who learned about lawsuits from a spreadsheet. Instabridge is different because the person underwriting your case has actually stood in a courtroom, negotiated a settlement, and satisfied a lien from a trust account. That shows up in three places.
Case-first underwriting
We evaluate liability, damages, and timeline the way plaintiff attorneys do — because that's how the person setting our underwriting rules thinks. Not credit models. Not scoring algorithms. Case merits.
How we underwrite →Settlement-protective caps
We cap advances at 8–15% of the conservative projected settlement. A lawyer running the company doesn't want plaintiffs walking away from settlement with nothing — even if it means smaller advances than a competitor would offer.
See the cap in action →Contracts a lawyer wrote
Every Instabridge contract discloses every fee, every rate, every accrual tier from 6 months to 4+ years — up front, in plain language. Because a lawyer signed off on the wording before it went to a single plaintiff.
See the full cost schedule →One case at a time. One scholarship at a time.
When you choose Instabridge, you're not just securing the financial support you need — you're also making a difference. A portion of our proceeds goes directly to funding scholarships for aspiring law students from low-income backgrounds. Together, we're building a stronger, more diverse legal community.